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If the carousels are full that could be anywhere from 5,520 slides (80-capacity carousels) up to 9,660 (14-capacity carousels). So let’s just ballpark it at 5,000-10,000 slides. I’d have a few concerns about this project:
- Health: If there is mold these need to be handled carefully.
- Cleaning: Even if there isn’t mold, the slides might need to be cleaned. Because the mounts can trap dust and debris, cleaning dirty slides can be a pain.
- I wouldn’t be too concerned about the client damaging the slides. but I would be really concerned about the client completing the task. If the count is on the high end and the client can load and preview the slides at a blistering pace of 5 seconds per slide that’s more than 13 hours of non-step viewing. When you factor in setup, blowing dust (or mold) from the carousels, jams, nostalgia, interruptions, blown and replaced bulbs, etc. it will take a normal person weeks or months to review 5-10k slides.
- In order to make the project happen I would suggest to the client that we just scan it all OR have some rules about what you scan. For example, some clients say “Only scan slides with people in them.” With that approach you’re much more likely to actually get and finish the project.
All the explanatory text about this course is missing, but I strongly encourage you to check out the Easy Index Scanning Workflow that Laura Woolsey and I teach in this course: https://www.photoorganizers.academy/courses/easy-index-scanning-workflow
It’s the easiest way to create a chronologically sorted digital archive, with everything matched back to the original photos, and with as little thought/effort as possible. With this approach it doesn’t matter if you do the pre-sort or the client does it, but following this workflow will be MUCH less work for everybody.
I swear by this workflow and use it for literally every client project.
Welcome, Kim! We’re glad you’re here and your experience with photography and Lightroom will definitely help.
Welcome, we’re glad you’re here. I think you’ll find lots of helpful people and resources for your project.
I’m not aware of a way to do this. The comment field in the Windows OS File explorer is a kind of metadata that is Windows-specific, instead of something like the Caption field which it part of the IPTC photo metadata standard. Sorry!
Are you looking for a backup service, a sync service, or an access/sharing service? I think those are important distinctions and can help you narrow your focus.
What’s happening here is that your camera is seeing a big white area (the back of the photo) and trying to compensate by making the exposure darker. If you shoot a lot of photo backs, then you might consider shooting in manual mode instead of aperture mode as I suggest in my course.
You could use a color checker, but what you need help with is exposure, not color balance. In that case, you can actually use the gray base of your copy stand for the same purpose. Adjust the exposure of these “photo back” shots so the gray of the copy stand base matches the gray of a “photo front” shot and you should be set.
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with PDF-A validation, so I’d have to re-learn some of this stuff. Regarding the errors, you’ll just have to take them one at a time and brush up not he PDF-A spec. For example, When you save your TIFF scans and convert them to PDF you can use JPEG compression or Zip, compression, but not LZW.
It also looks like you might have some transparent and layered content in there, which isn’t allowed. Does that sound possible, maybe from a stitched or retouched file? If so, you’ll have to flatten those files before saving the PDF.
The built-in PDF creation of Quartz has often been very low quality and not very controllable. I’ve seen Mac OS create a PDF that’s 100X larger than a well-page PDF with Adobe Acrobat, but I’ve also seen Mac OS create a PDF that’s 1/10 the size, as you see here.
I don’t think that files need to be big or small, but I like to control the parameters and know how a file is created and what compression is used so I’m confident it suits my purposes. If you cannot control the compression parameters with Automator, then I’d take a bit more time and control the downsampling and compression with Adobe Acrobat. If you really want to be detailed, you can also use Adobe Acrobat to ensure your PDFs adhered to the PDF-A standard for digital archival storage.
Welcome folks! I’ve been organizing photos for 20+ years, professionally for others for almost three years, and I’m glad I’ve been a member of TPM. There’s a lot to learn, and I agree that working on you own photos is a great place to start. Then working through your first client project helps you gain the confidence that you can actually do this for clients you don’t know as well.
I’ve never used that device, but I suspect that “Document Mode” might add some sharpening as it’s expecting text on plan backgrounds. That sharpening could could make text more legible, but could also over-sharpen photographic images.
The most helpful answer will come if you can post sample images or 100% zoom screenshots of your example scans.
That’s a good workflow Chris. My only nitpick is that you are probably compressing your JPEG’s twice, once with Lightroom and a second time with Acrobat. Practically speaking you probably won’t see much difference but you could export uncompressed tiff from Lightroom, convert to PDF with Acrobat, and control your image compression settings when you save the PDF. that’s a good workflow Kris. My only nitpick is that you are probably compressing your JPEG‘s twice, once with Lightroom and a second time with Acrobat. Practically speaking you probably won’t see much difference but you could export uncompressed tiff from Lightroom, convert to PDF with Acrobat, and control your image compression settings when you save the PDF
Welcome Ana. It sounds like you have a very interesting photographic background. I especially enjoy scanning glass plate negatives. What kind of equipment do you use?
I think the problem is: I want to convert a number of images to a PDF with different page sizes, possibly even within the same document.
Doing that with any software other than Adobe Acrobat that I know of would require multiple template sizes, and if the software allows, multiple page sizes within one document (such as a cover and an interior spread).
The other thing to watch out for is file size and compression quality with the conversion of source document to PDF. Not all PDFs are created equal. For example, I’ve seen examples from the Mac OS and Microsoft Office where the PDF they generate is very poor quality OR very bloated (up to 100x larger than necessary).
I think you can get a trial version of Adobe Acrobat and it might be worth a try. You can create a multipage PDF rom multiple image sources, even if they’re different sizes, with a few clicks in Acrobat and you can control the output resolution and compression.
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